Jack Garratt Quotes

Jack Garratt

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 11, 1991

I grew up with parents who really encouraged me to listen to as much music as I could.

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I've always found myself to be most free and creatively open when I'm on my own.

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Festivals are the best because you can't control anything, and for a control freak like me, that's a wonderful experience.

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I didn't do myself any favours. I would be resentful of my own ideas even before I'd said them out loud. But music was always the most consistent and peaceful thing for me. So I taught myself to be my harshest critic rather than just a mean voice in the back of my head.

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I wish I was a prolific writing wondrous boy genius - I wish I was Stevie Wonder - but I wasn't. I was me. I wrote terrible songs about girls I was head-over-heels about. As soon as a pretty girl looks at me, that's it - I'm in love, and I should probably write a song about it!

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I got my first laptop, what I learned to do everything on, when I was 17 or 18, and I had no idea what I was doing. I'd only ever produced on an 8-track before. When I was about 13 and writing songs, I would write on that. It would literally be eight tracks, and that's all I had.

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The 'Remnants' EP was the first time I got to really explore myself as a producer, and I got the insane idea of doing it on my own in my future career.

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I've been naturally quick at learning things, and I learn by doing things, so if I sit beside someone who is actively doing something, I look at how they do it and absorb the way in which they do something and find my own comfortable way of reimagining that, or using certain techniques in my own way.

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I don't listen to much music on the go because I tend either to be writing my own music or wanting a break from the music around me.

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Tech gives people more opportunities to be themselves in front of other people. Sometimes that's great; sometimes it's bad.

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The reason I'm scared of flying is because I'm not in charge. Being so far out of control terrifies me.

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I will have a playlist ready that I'll play out to the audience before I walk on stage, and I'll listen to that same playlist in the room, so by the time I walk on stage, I'm in the same frame of mind the audience is.

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With the BBC Sound list, it's just humbling even being put aside those other musicians - people like Alicia Kava, who I am a huge fan of.

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I believe that musical instruments are created because they are supposed to be played. There's not an instrument that's been designed to not be playable - it kind of defeats the point.

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All I do is hope that someone feels something from listening to my music.

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Who am I to sit here and say I'm going to change the face of music?

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I am only interested in celebrating music.

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I spent 19, 20 years of my life being terrified about what I looked like. I was a ginger white kid.

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I enjoy the music I make because I have to - if I didn't, I wouldn't want to make it, and I wouldn't want it to be heard by other people.

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When I was younger and played acoustic guitar music, I got a lot of Sheeran comparisons, along with guys like Paolo Nutini and James Morrison.

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